First time for me was somewhere mid-1992 sitting at PRE, level 2A, munching on a sausage roll watching the 2nds play before the 1sts came on, and noticed this skinny tall kid dashing around the Ponsford end goals with a mate of mine saying that's Alan's son.
I always thought that having a fit Richo might have gotten us into the GF. Win or lose that and Northey doesn’t leave and who knows what 1996 might have been.
Same here. After watching our current success, I wonder if Richo thinks this too.
As enigmatic as he was, he kept us interested in going to the games.
No doubt. You need a dominating key forward and Richo was starting to do that and the opposition didn’t know how to stop him.
The AFL have over complicated footy so much that we have lost a lot of the essence of the game.
He was phenomenal in his prime. I think he kicked 6 in his comeback game Rd 1 ‘96. I think it was against the Bombres, too. I remember a game against Carlton, and he’d gone on a rampage, so they sent Silvagni to him. First thing Richo does is go on a 100 metre sprint up the ground, dragging Steve with him, then we kick it into our forward line and Richo hammers back down the ground with a winded Silvagni dragging a long way behind.
20 possessions, 10 marks and 6-4 in a losing side
Kicked over 90 goals in 96, he must have worked his butt off in rehab, because I think he did his knee in the June of 95.
But, nearly won a Brownlow for it. Just shows the tunnel vision these flogs have as they only look at the mids on field.
Round 9. He had kicked 27 (and something like 3 points i think) in the first 8 rounds. Rd 9 back then would have been late May/early June.
Maybe it did but what it did allow was a bloke called Jack Riewoldt to take over as the key forward target. I've heard that guy did ok for us as well.
just prior to the move to the wing people here and on BF and Y&B were screaming for him to be traded .., even delisted
